Andrew Hudson, whose recent article on BFS over at ARSTechnicaintrigued us, shares with us some thoughts on the state of apps on Haiku. It turns out there are several repositories with a vast array of applications ready-to-go for your new Haiku install.

That's great news! I was thinking throughout the entire article: "why not go for an Ubuntu-like package manager?" It would make that out-of-the-box experience for new users much easier, especially if in later versions there is a preview screenshot with every app (like in the Zeta installer).